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QUEDLINBURG, Germany — I still reflexively stand up when my old professor Vicente V. Mendoza texts. Yes, the law professor of law professors, justice of justices and legal legend of legal legends fact checks my column. Justice…
DEPUTY MAYORS Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña and 10 other city officials have been sued over the appointment of some city councilors as deputy mayors. According to the complainant, former National Bureau of Investigation–Central Visayas Director Florencio…
The Legal Alternatives for Women (LAW) Center TV program “Sa Mata sa Kababayen-an” at CCTN was very informative regarding assisting the elderly among us. Program guests, Dr. Amparo T. Florida, Golden Center of Cebu, Inc. (GCCI) president,…
Last week I had an interview with a history teacher who is doing a research on student activism in Cebu, and I shared with her my experiences of educating for social consciousness and transformation even before martial…
The intense fear inflicted by Martial Law sent various signals. Some slowly left the country, private schools especially Catholic schools turned over their schools to another congregation. I am familiar with three cases of such schools. St.…
HUMAN rights lawyer Democrito Barcenas called on Cebu residents to remain vigilant in monitoring developments and take a stand against actions and policies that could lead to the declaration of martial law anew in the country. In…
Forty-five years after it was declared by the late president Ferdinand Marcos, millennials have different perspectives on how martial law had impacted the country’s history and its people. Yet Cebuano millenials Ivan Rey Tan, Ted Frances Servano…
Quezon City Rep. Winston Castelo filed a resolution calling for an investigation into the death of 22-year-old Horacio Tomas “Atio” Castillo III, the University of Santo Tomas student who was apparently a victim of hazing by the…
Towards the beginning of the seventies, groups among the youth had awakened into intensified nationalism. In the positive sense, they were envisioning a future of authentic independence and a government that was actually serving the Filipino people.…
On September 21, 1972, then president Ferdinand Marcos signed Proclamation No. 1081, placing the entire Philippines under martial law to address an intensifying communist insurgency. Many regard it as the Philippines’ darkest time. Under martial law there…
It’s no small coincidence that Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana’s comment about the possibility, however remote, of President Rodrigo Duterte declaring a nationwide martial law came days ahead of the 46th anniversary of the declaration of martial law…
The declaration of a nationwide martial law next week is a “remote possibility,” Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Friday. Wire service Agence France-Presse, which earlier came out with a report titled “Philippines’ Duterte may declare martial…
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